mimi_sardinia / My tweets

Sun, 12:07: You want to bring up a cultural bias that Tolkien had, well I tend to think he was a product of his time.
Sun, 12:09: You want questionable writing of other races (of humans)? Read Narnia.
Sun, 12:10: If someone wrote a book *now* with the same cultural biases as Tolkien had, I'd be happy to sit back as people screamed "Racist!" at it.
Sun, 12:11: But Tolkien was a man of a past era, with different standards.
Sun, 12:12: Identify the biases, recognize them as such. Use them to recognize your own biases, and go on and enjoy the books anyway.
Sun, 12:18: All this has been brought to you by @king_thror bringing up racial issues to @SilmarilNaro .
Sun, 12:19: And I admit, I decided to say all of it here because @SilmarilNaro is one of mine.
Sun, 12:20: Varda still thinks I should have given the account to Manwë, but my Manwë muse is not in the house. Nárë was willing to come & snark.
Sun, 12:21: Also, Nárë has been around as long as Varda has. I RP'd silmarils back in late '04.
Sun, 12:23: RT @YoungDwarf: Tolkien was a little 'un PC' at times, but he wasn't directly hateful towards people of colour. He only mentioned them a feâ¦

Sun, 12:24: RT @YoungDwarf: He wasn't exactly nice about them but he wasn't as bad as some people, even in this day and age, people are worse.
Sun, 14:06: Can people not understand what "In Character" & "Out of Character" means? @king_thror doesn't. They're unfollowed here as well.
Sun, 14:09: I am now going off to read fanfic, & daydream about Boromir & Kili. Together. Blame Valandhir.
Sun, 14:53: ~You told me, "Yes" You held me high And I believed when you told that lie~
Sun, 14:53: ~I played soldier, you played king And struck me down, when I kissed that ring~
Sun, 14:53: ~You lost that right, to hold that crown I built you up, but you let me down~
Sun, 14:53: ~So when you fall, I'll take my turn And fan the flames As your blazes burn ~
Sun, 15:26: Nárë is such fun. There's something liberating about playing a character so vicious and misanthropic.

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